Two Gamers, One GPU from your Windows PC! Hyper-V Paravirtualization Build and Tutorial
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Published 2021-07-31
So you can't buy a new graphics card right now.... How about sharing the one that's already in your PC, no extra hardware required? With just a Windows 10 Pro license a little know-how, you and a friend could be gaming on the same computer, at the same time.
But first... What am I drinking???
From Ex Novo Brewing, it's the Mass Ascension IPA (6.9%... nice). No beer review, as this one went a little long, but this was a nice change of pace for recent 'THICC' IPAs. Crisp, clean, fresh... a great summer-time beer.
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Files from this tutorial:
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Music:
Covert Affair by Kevin MacLeod
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0:00 Intro
3:55 Gratuitous B-Roll
5:01 Parts Review
9:30 GPU-P Requirements
11:47 Configure Hyper-V
15:59 Setup Shared GPU Drivers
19:42 Partition Your GPU!
21:13 GPU-P Demonstration
All Comments (21)
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I hate that tech reviewers now have a sense of guilt because parts/devices aren't available. Yall are just doing your jobs. EDIT: And you're not even using a review sample card! Anyway, This is super cool. I'd love to see an AMD version of this too at some point
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For the few that bought a 4080... They changed the name of the driver folder (at least for me). It's now nvmdi.inf_amd64 instead of nv_dispi.inf_amd64. Like this so more people see it!
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Got ahold of a 3070 gonna basically build this so I can share my pc with my brother who sat outside of Best Buy for 10hrs for me to get the GPU. Thank you for allowing me to share the love and the FPS.
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Looks like I'm re-rolling our Parsec server next week lol
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So now I have an excuse for a 3080 and a 3900x? That's great, I'm sure my wife will understand :)
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Thank you so much Jeff! My gf and I play stardew valley together and her laptop is an i3 and 4gbs of ram and she was able to play using my rigs power with zero lag. Worked amazing and brought her a lot of happiness. I set this up on my 5950x and 2070 super rig.
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A craft computing video without a beer review is like an LTT video without a sponsor segue. Is Rett slipping?
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Contribution: For those who could not find the driver folder "nv_...", look at all the folders that start with the letters 'nv', the correct folder is the biggest one, about 1GB (in my case the name was " nvdmi.inf_amd64..." ;)
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The tomato ad-read was the one you teased wasnt it. Its incredible and hilarious.
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Hell yes! Feels like Christmas in August! I just love virtualization content. I don't know why, but I do.
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Thank you so much for creating this tutorial, this is going to be so helpful for my used case of having multiple video editors using the same machine remotely. Really appreciate the thoughtful and straightforward guides.
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This is by far THE best video on how to do this. Worked first time for me, got family members playing off of the same GPU with little to no hit on my side🔥
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This video is very helpful. I tried it and now my sister can game from her home on my computer. It works perfectly. Thanks!
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I did this months ago and really enjoyed how well it worked. Thanks for making a video and spreading the word around. Also for a two player setup I recommend having 2 vms with partitioned graphics as that will help prevent frame drops/stuttering
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This is a amazing tutorial. I managed to do it in a fx-6300 and 1050 ti adn 16gb ddr3 memory. With the fps limitation some games works fine.
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possibly the best manscape advert i've seen!
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Could we get a short video showing just the different files etc for using this with an AMD card. Such a cool idea thank you!
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Great way of getting GPU-P working quickly. We also started incorporating this into a project. Just wish Microsoft would add the ability to chose which GPU goes where rather than just picking randomly from all cards in the system.
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16:43 For everyone who doesn't have that folder: Device Manager > Your Graphics Card > Properties > Driver > Driver Details > Scroll all the way down, that's the folder you need.
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Wow, this is incredible. I consider myself an enthusiast and support our small 6 man office in terms of IT but never had a chance to play with virtualization despite the growth in it's popularity in the last decade. This will really push me to try it. Especially since I have a decommissioned Dell Poweredge T320 with e5-2450v2 (ivy bridge 8 core/16 thread) server. Now I just have to find a cheap graphics card or scavenge my gaming pc's 1070ti. Really exciting
